Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Buryat tale relates how one of their groups decided to link itself with the Russians because their own khan chopped off heads for crimes which merited mere birching in Muscovite territory . |
| 2 | Percy the park-keeper rescues the animals when their old oak tree is blown down in a storm , and the new house he builds for them is presented in a fold-away poster at the end of the book . |
| 3 | Here is kept the " Good Shepherd " , a small MFV run by the islanders as their only sea link with the outside world , it carries most of the stores , mail and passengers . |
| 4 | She gasped out the words as his dark head bent towards her , but instead of kissing her lips he let his mouth trail over her neck , nuzzling under her hair until shivers started to race down her spine . |
| 5 | Pyramids are found in both the Middle East and the Americas , perhaps because men reflected that mountains were closer to the heavens , where the gods were said to live , so they built the pyramids as their own mountains . |
| 6 | In the years since her acrimonious divorce from the Earl of Cassillis , the Countess , 32 , has suffered a much-publicised fall from grace . |
| 7 | Tricord has already debuted the things as its 5000 series in the US running a variety of operating systems — though Sequent has an exclusive deal on NT versions . |
| 8 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc will launch its K2 series of multiprocessor Microsoft Corp Windows NT systems co-designed with Tricord Systems Inc on May 3 in the US — May 4 in the UK ( UX No 420 ) : Tricord has already launched the things as its 5000 series in the US running a variety of operating systems — though Sequent has an exclusive deal on NT versions ; as well as the low-end K2 boxes , Sequent will also be launching a series of high-end , Pentium-ready systems also said to be NT-capable . |
| 9 | I would have liked to take the Crusades as my special subject , but my inadequacy in Latin deterred me . |
| 10 | ‘ Still the guns churned this treacherous slime , the surplus water poured into the trenches as its natural outlet , and they became impossible for the troops … men staggered warily over duckboards . |
| 11 | Just as Jennie had been on the sidelines while his first wife was alive , Mary became his mistress almost immediately he went through his second marriage ceremony . |
| 12 | Through Morndun she saw writhing spirits and running ghosts that drifted back into the trees as her haunting gaze fell upon them and they became aware of being watched . |
| 13 | So if you erm press the return key er go into option three right and what we 'll do is we 'll , we 'll plot erm plot the histogram of the residuals because what this test for normality is doing is seeing whether the residuals we get from our regression are normally distributed , right O and S assumes that they will be . |
| 14 | In spite of a number of important publications in the early 1980s which sought to take Edwardian Conservatism seriously , notably the work of Geoffrey Searle , Alan Sykes , and Gregory Phillips , the Conservative party remained the Cinderella of Edwardian historiography , languishing in the shadows while its ugly sisters , the Liberal and Labour parties , hogged the limelight . |
| 15 | Gardai launched a full scale search for the men when their empty boat was spotted adrift in the water on Friday night . |
| 16 | Gardai launched a full scale search for the men when their empty boat was spotted adrift in the water on Friday night . |
| 17 | Fifteen years ago , when Brian and Scarlet had just bought the house next door to Constance , she had regarded the police as her worst enemy , but things had changed . |
| 18 | On an equal mass comparison , this further favours the composites because their low densities allow much greater panel thickness . |
| 19 | And they do claime demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted Rights and Liberties and that noe Declarations Judgements Doeings or proceedings to the prejudice of the People in any of the said premisses ought in any wise to bee drawne hereafter into Consequence or Example . |
| 20 | Imagine the consequences if its entire contents were to escape into the atmosphere . |
| 21 | It will be Bingham 's greatest-ever triumph against the odds if his re-emerging team manage to put the brakes on Jack Charlton 's drive to the United States finals next year . |
| 22 | After a modest playing career , Harford hit the headlines when his unfancied Luton beat Arsenal 3–2 with a last-minute goal in the 1988 Littlewoods Cup final at Wembley . |
| 23 | If the Stormy Petrel does not seem priggish it is because his appetite for action and mystery is always as evident in the stones as his steadfast loyalty and his intelligence . |
| 24 | Ong polled 35 per cent of the votes while his strongest opponent , Harun Idris , endorsed by the former Industry Minister Razaleigh Hamza , the leader of the political faction trying to oust Mahathir [ see p. 35459 ] , polled 28 per cent . |
| 25 | He was ploughing a stetch not far from the headlands when his two horses suddenly stopped dead . |
| 26 | He was taking no chances as his clear gaze dared her to lie . |